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NATO to Proceed With Expansion
NATO will continue expanding, U.S. Deputy State Secretary Nicholas Burns vowed when commenting on the Munich speech of Putin.
NATO isn’t targeted at Russia, it is rather a force of peace and security, Burns said to justify the lack of grounds for the hostile attitude of Moscow towards NATO.
At the same time, Burns called Russia one of the closest partners in the non-proliferation effort of the United States and thanked Moscow for counterterrorism cooperation. But the deputy secretary of state singled out some issues where Moscow and Washington were opposed to each other, including stationing elements of the U.S. missile defense system in Czechia and Poland.
Burns’ remarks weren’t the first comments of the U.S. officials on the Munich speech of Putin. Earlier, U.S. President George W. Bush spoke about different views of Washington and Moscow on some issues of foreign policy, but pointed to a raft of global targets, in respect of which the stances of both countries coincided.
In his Munich speech, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin blamed on the United States the attempt to enforce its legal and political standards on other countries and emphasized the dangerous nature of such politics. Putin said that the use of force by some states or blocs often results in the higher death toll and makes the world even more tense, “feeding the urge of the states to possessing the weapons of mass destruction.”
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